Oh the irony

So, I'm getting a coffee to get me going before my appointment this morning. The woman infront of me orders a 'skinny latte'. To add to her order she selects a comically giant oversized biscuit and then puts four sugars in the skinny latte

Its a well known fact that diet coke dissolves the calories of any food you're having at the time.

Mrs Binners said the other day there was a bloke parked outside their office, with his window down, listening to a Paul McKenna slimming hypnotism thing..... while chomping away on a couple of pasties from Greggs

Diet coke may taste better but its a lot less healthy for you than full fat coke. Wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.

I'm going to have to ask why on earth that would be the case.

I reminds me of a bloke I met on holiday who said that there were no natural ingredients in diet coke. Leaving to one side that this is irrelevant, when I pointed out that there was quite a bit of water in it he said, barely pausing for breath, that I was clutchg at straws.

Diet coke may taste better but its a lot less healthy for you than full fat coke. Wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.

Go on... How?

Link to any evidence for this sweeping fact?

(I suspsect you will just find lots of info regarding neither being something you should drink a lot of but nothing to say sweteners are categorically worse for you than sugar, they just **** you up in different ways.)

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) assesses the safety of sweeteners such as aspartame in the European Union. According to a 2009 report from its Panel on Food Additives and Nutrient Sources Added to Food:

Overall, the Panel concluded, on the basis of all the evidence currently available… that there is no indication of any genotoxic or carcinogenic potential of aspartame and that there is no reason to revise the previously established ADI for aspartame of 40 mg/kg [body weight].

Aside from the possible effects in people with phenylketonuria, there are no health problems that have been consistently linked to aspartame use. Research on artificial sweeteners, including aspartame, continues today.

With a little more forethought, both characters in the original story could have prepared for their day by making a flask of weak lemon drink and some small sandwiches wrapped in greaseproof paper. If they had sat outside, perhaps on a bench in a small park, the conversation could have revolved around them getting to know one another, maybe arranging to meet up again for lunch in a day or so.
A little give and take, a little compromise, then one day perhaps their hands might touch while passing a Ferrero Rocher and a dull ember may have turned into a full blown flame.

But no. Another opportunity to make the world a slightly nicer place has been lost, another

As already explained, aspartame is extremely bad and its long term affects are not fully understood.

Also, a lot of research has shown that the sweetners in diet drinks physically make you crave sweet stuff a short time after you've had one. Research showed that people will regularly reach for a chocolate bar or cake within 30 mins of drinking a diet soda.

As already explained, aspartame is extremely bad and its long term affects are not fully understood.

Well that's not actually true is it. Most of the research actually indicates that it is safe to use, hence why it is approved for use all over the world.

Also, a lot of research has shown that the sweetners in diet drinks physically make you crave sweet stuff a short time after you've had one. Research showed that people will regularly reach for a chocolate bar or cake within 30 mins of drinking a diet soda

In other words it's not actually the diet coke that's bad for you but the additional calories that you will injest that won't do you any good.